(The following is an essay I wrote in January 2018. It reconciles the shocking revelation of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann's starting normalism and how we can square abhorrent behaviors in our own stories) Much has been said and written about the 1963 compilation of reporting by Hannah Arendt on the 1960 trial of former S.S. official Adolf Eichmann.

I'm not much of an online person. I don't like interacting with strangers online, I find the relative anonymity to be off-putting. Like many my age, I jumped onto social media as the train was leaving the station. I was maybe a bit late to Myspace, but I hopped on Facebook as soon as I was able. But as I've grown older my interest and frankly courage to be online has dwindled.